Example sentences of "a [noun] by the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll have dried out a bit by the time I get to the cottage , and I do n't really want to go all the way back to the farm after I 've come this far . ’ |
| 2 | If we do not receive a certificate by the time interest is payable , or you do not qualify , your interest will be paid after deduction of basic rate tax [ at current rates this would be 6.75% ] . |
| 3 | It still had n't reached a verdict by the time it was recalled at 5 p.m . |
| 4 | I get a stitch by the time I reach the telephone box . |
| 5 | Young Thomas Cottingham may be in a wheelchair by the time he 's 10 . |
| 6 | The economy could easily be in a mess by the time of the next election . |
| 7 | Brenda says she was in a coma by the time they got her into the hospital . |
| 8 | He says your when a ambulance comes for people who are sick they have the and there 'll be somebody who maybe really seriously ill by the time tha that they ask where to get to such and such a place by the time they 're there sometimes the people dead ! |
| 9 | She seemed to accept without question that Alexandra was the one who would handle the crisis , if it was still a crisis by the time she got into the office . |
| 10 | At a three day event , you 've already done quite a distance by the time you get to do the course ! |
| 11 | Before I had the children , I was pretty certain I would be a head by the time I was 40 . |
| 12 | Some of the individual wells are capable of flowing more than 90 million cubic feet a day , and total production should be up to 245 million cubic feet a day by the time the field hits its peak next summer . |
| 13 | Perhaps he was looking for a drink by the time he had climbed as far as the Piazza where three renaissance palaces , a town hall and cathedral confront each other across an open space of such lively dignity and harmony as to make the lack of tourist cafes completely forgivable . |
| 14 | Consequently Paige 's nerves were stretched as tight as a drum by the time they stopped for the night on the banks of one of the streams they had waded through . |
| 15 | I rudely announced to my wife Claudia that I simply had to have a baby by the time I was 35 . |
| 16 | A girl could be earning 10s a week by the time she was 18 : better pay than most of the other teenage working girls in the CECOS Report , who were usually in low-paid service ( as domestics or laundry-workers ) or low-paid factory workers ( machinists , paper-bag makers ) . |
| 17 | There was quite a procession by the time we got to the church , St Paul 's , and as we entered the organ played ‘ Here Comes the Bride ’ . |
| 18 | I suppose it was n't really that much of a morning by the time you got home again . |
| 19 | I 'll be a millionaire by the time I 'm twenty-five . |
| 20 | I 'd join the crimplene brigade , dress out of the Littlewoods club and resign myself to false teeth and a perm by the time I was 30 . |
| 21 | Both had taken quite a beating by the time the first grey flickers of dawn filtered in . |
| 22 | Erm , I want us to get to a stage by the time you leave tomorrow afternoon , where we actually have and you have agreed a plan for your team . |
| 23 | You 'll have a lot of a headache by the time I 've finished . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , he 's usually doing thirty mile an hour by the time he hits the blackberry hedge at the bottom of the pitch , never even gets a scratch as a rule . |
| 25 | The others had been gone for an hour by the time she was ready to leave . |
| 26 | He was fortunate to be seen as an anti-appeaser by the time Chamberlain was negotiating with Hitler and coercing the Czechs into surrender during the Czechoslovakian crisis of September 1938 . |
| 27 | The judge found that the police had been engaged in a trick or deceit , had not acted as agents provocateurs or incited crime , had provided no market which would not have been available elsewhere , and had had grounds to suspect that each appellant had committed an offence by the time when the first sale by him was transacted , but that he had not been cautioned . |
| 28 | The officers had grounds to suspect each appellant of having committed an offence by the time the first of the sales in which he was involved was transacted . |
| 29 | Those last high-spirited weeks at Alfoxden and Stowey were almost at an end by the time Cottle and Hazlitt left for home . |
| 30 | Compare these potential losses with the fall due to the recession , estimated by the Henley Centre for Forecasting at 9% in 1990 and a further 6% in 1991 but for the national press at 11% in 1990 and a further 12% in 1991 ( Media Week 8.7.91 — and the recession will be coming to an end by the time any tobacco advertising ban is introduced . |